`House' star continues to shine

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Hugh Laurie logged another stellar year on House. He won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award. He is up for an Emmy on Sept. 16. Isn't it time he won that prize, too?

The third-season DVD set gives you 24 episodes of Dr. Gregory House (Laurie) in brilliant, troubled and combustible form. House recovers from gunshot wounds, struggles with Vicodin addiction and tangles with a detective (David Morse). House's patients include a 600-pound man, a musical savant, an autistic boy and a chess prodigy.

The finale suggests House will carry on without his team: Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison). But they will be back in some capacity during the fourth season, which starts Sept. 25.

There's another reason to hope that Laurie wins that Emmy. Among actors, he gives the best acceptance speeches. In collecting his SAG trophy, Laurie said, "It seems to be that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work; it's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work."